Myrtle Rose White Explained

Birth Name:Myrtle Rose Kennewell
Birth Date:30 August 1888
Death Place:Port Hedland, Western Australia
Birth Place:Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Notable Works:No Roads Go By

Myrtle Rose White (1888–1961) was an Australian novelist. She is best known for No Roads Go By, a work of autobiographical fiction.

Life

Myrtle Rose White was the third child of Dina Ann (née Adams) and miner Mark Albert Kennewell. She was born in a tent near Broken Hill, New South Wales on 30 August 1888. She grew up in South Australia's Barossa Valley.[1] Her education was sporadic before she attended a private school in Williamstown, South Australia.

Following her marriage in 1910 to Cornelius White, known as Con, the couple moved to Lake Elder in South Australia, where he managed a rural property. This later served as the setting for her first book, which was favourably compared with Mrs Aeneas Gunn's We of the Never Never.[2] Originally published in 1932, a new edition was released by Angus & Robertson in 1954, incorporating illustrations by Elizabeth Durack.[3]

Personal

White's husband Con died in Adelaide in 1940[4] and was buried in Centennial Park Cemetery.[5] White died on 11 July 1961 while visiting her son, Alan, at Port Hedland, Western Australia. Her body was cremated in Perth and her ashes interred as she wished, part in Centennial Park Cemetery and part at Wonnaminta Station, outside Broken Hill.

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Myrtle Rose White . 2022-10-30 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . en.
  2. News: 1 July 1932 . Jeffery Farnol's Stories of Old London . 4 . . 29,482 . New South Wales, Australia . 11 November 2022 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: 19 November 1954 . Book Review: Woman Tells Story of Life in S.A. Desert Station Home . 23 . The Land . 2251 . New South Wales, Australia . 11 November 2022 . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: 17 October 1940 . Family Notices . LXXXIII . 21 . Chronicle . 4,739 . South Australia . 11 November 2022 . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: 12 October 1940 . Family Notices . 29 . 10 . The Mail (Adelaide) . 1,481 . South Australia . 11 November 2022 . National Library of Australia.
  6. News: BOOK REVIEWS . . 60 . 16933 . Western Australia . 19 October 1954 . 31 October 2022 . 10 . National Library of Australia.
  7. News: Current Literature . . Queensland, Australia . 18 June 1932 . 1 November 2022 . 6 (SPORTS FINAL) . National Library of Australia.
  8. News: "For Those That Love It." . . New South Wales, Australia . 3 November 1933 . 31 October 2022 . 1 . National Library of Australia.

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